answer.

I know a ton of the process for Nancy Drew.

I don't know as much about the Hardy Boys.

I know that the main motivator for the revisions was, in fact, economics.

James Keyline has really demonstrated this.

You can read his research on this.

that they were looking to make the books cheaper to produce, so they wanted to make them shorter.

we

Absolutely.

I, I mean, I, again, that, that's, that's, that's an incredible...

Known worldwide.

People know the name even if they don't know, um, even if they've never read the text, and, and it's so referential in that sense.

So it, it is, it is something in our culture, in our...

It's such a cr- incredible that of course we have to study this, and of course we have to do this.

But as we study these things, especially as we study these things from our childhood, we also have to acknowledge we're kind of studying ourselves, and that's also really cool and really exciting.

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